Well, I can't say I am the most healthy person in the world, but living in 24-hour London where everyone is always too busy on their crackberry to attend more then a monthly yoga class to get their health boost (plus the hundred dozen smoothies and cereal bars inbetween) I'd say I tend to be healtheir then most I come across.
I workout, cardio for 8-10 hours a week every week (even Christmas) I use my heart rate monitor to guide what I do, I know its all false calories but I use 700-1000kcals per gym session (5 a week totalling 4500-5000kcals a week) to go by. This way I tend to want to cut my time and work harder. I never go before I've done an hour and 20 mins though so if I end early I do dumbell type things. Then I stretch, 1 min per pose about 15 mins in total, then if I have time, 10-15 mins on the power plate to stretch that little bit further (it really makes a difference to the degree of stretch I can hold and this makes me feel better for some reason).
Foodwise...could be better. I used to be anorexic, just eat fresh fruit and steamed veg all day/nght, had a BMI of somewhere around 16 and manaed that for a few years. Then I got ill with bulimia (psychological reasons- I was being bullied by my boss and it kick started something) I went down too low and managed to skive hopsital by stopping the bulimia which took over a year, but left me very confused about food. I still see a dietition from time to time now so am aware of how imperfect my food was. See the thing is, you can't just go back to eating steamed veg and fresh fruit after a relaspe of bulimia, you have to learn to manage things and eat proper food like protein and stay away from junk which makes you overly hungry like black coffee with tonnes of sugar and sweetener in.
So now I eat enough protein every day, just about. But I do this via protein bars (v.unhealthy I know) they just feel easier to deal with then the mindfield of meat and are easier to eat on the go then a packet of ham or tuna steak (think London Underground and being in a cage full of people for 3-6 hours of your free time every day, fish would not go down well! Go to a gym and eat but its often too close to a workout or the gym is closing or you get people come staring at what your eating. A protein bar or after a workout a plain yogurt and fresh fruit is do-able!
Breakfast is plain porridge (made with water) and tea (added skimmed milk), dinner is steamed veg and quorn, fish or if I can afford it, a chicken or turkey breast. Multiple helpings of fresh fruit following.
I sleep haphazard- some nights I get 2 or 3 hours if I am lucky (I have insomnia and stress and depression) some days I sleep in till 1pm! (weekend days!) I want to regulate this but its been an impossible battle for the past 15 years. I guess thats my falling grace...
Lifestyle wise I try to reduce stress, I see a therapist for my moods which helps massivly but I seem to re-create my own stress! I see things in a different way to everyone else, everything is much more intense and I get to the end of the day and it all comes back at me- not good and not easy to sleep through! Its a head problem, pills and meditation don't do it for me but talking helps, so I try to do that (with my therapist) and trying to understand it so it feels less of something which is trying to control me, its a never ending battle I guess but as far as healthy goes, its something I am doing to try to get myself healthier.
One day at a time!
